Eureka Quartz Mining Company Stock Certificate....

Description

Eureka Quartz Mining Company Stock Certificate. One
partially-printed page, 11.25" x 6", El Dorado County, California,
January 24, 1853. This unused certificate acknowledges the bearer
as the "proprietor of One Shares [$50] of the Capital
Stock of the Eureka Quartz Mining Company . . . entitled to the
undivided pro rata part of the Capital Stock and profits of said
Company." Signed by James A. Shorb as president and E.H.
Cornwall as secretary.

Situated near Woodside, California, the mine operated for several
decades before closing sometime around 1882. Following its closure,
a second mine was opened near Placerville.

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